Kelley O’Hara, 2-time World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist, to retire after 2024 NWSL season WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

Kelley O’Hara, defender for the USWNT and for Gotham FC, announced Thursday that she will retire at the end of the 2024 NWSL season, which concludes in October.

O’Hara, 35, announced the news exclusively through Just Women’s sports, in both an article and a special “Kelley on the Street” YouTube video in which she asks people she meets on the street about retirement.

“I have always said I would play under two conditions: that I still love playing soccer, and if my body would let me do it the way I wanted to,” O’Hara told Just Women’s Sports. “I realized a while back that I was always going to love it, so it was the physical piece that was going to be the deciding factor.”

Once the 2023 NWSL season ended, O’Hara said she gave her future serious consideration, but hasn’t had any second thoughts since making the decision to move on.

“Once I was like, ‘Alright, you know what, this will be my …